Best & Worst County Tipperary towns

Drop the Ball

Nenagh is a great town...during day light hours. You could not meet nicer and friendlier people than Nenagh folk. But when the sun goes down the lunatics take over the asylum.

Garrykennedy has to be one of the nicest places in Co.Tipp, a picturesque village on the shores of Lough Derg. A hidden gem.

JabbaTheHut

touts wrote: »

Carrick and Cahir are just dull. They rely on tourism in the summer and commuting to Clonmel/Waterford for the rest of the year. There is a rough element in both towns but nothing more or less than you will find in any other Irish town.

Wtf are you on about? Carrick is a place where your statement may be true, but Cahir? You obviously have no experience there. Or if you do, it's VERY limited. I've had a hell of a lot more trouble in Clonmel than Cahir. Seems by your post that you've had a taste of these towns, at best. Cashel and Cahir seems more like the same kinda towns. And guess what. Tourism plays a BIG role in both towns, but no one commutes to Clonmel/Waterford for the rest of the year just because it's off season. You need to spend a bit more time in those regions

Jinxi

May not be towns, but the mast beautiful areas of Tipp have to be the Vee and the Glen of Atherlow. Cahir has a beautiful walk around the inch feild and down the woods to the Swiss. A few good pubs too.

Cashel has a good few pubs too.

Clonmel has gotten too dangerous to go out in.

Nenagh, Carrick and Thurles are soulless.

Blush_01

Being really honest, most places in Tipperary are kips. That said, I'll defend it to my dying breath.

People laud Cashel, but what does it have exactly? No decent cafés (Arch Lane and the French Quarter in Tipperary Town give any bar Chez Hans / Hans Café a run for their money, and that's really not saying much), hit and miss shopping, a very expensive health food shop, one decent Thai restaurant, the only bookshop just moved to Clonmel and it's overrun with tourists. It's no safer at night than Clonmel, Cahir, Tipperary Town or Carrick (and Carrick is a scumhole). The best thing I can think of in Cashel is the opticians just up from Xtra Vision.

Clonmel is a dive too, the roads there are as bad as anywhere in Tipperary Town or Thurles, it floods regularly, the Showgrounds shopping centre is a joke...

Lets face it, almost every town in Ireland has a very rough element in it, and they're largely teenagers who have nothing else to do but make trouble. The village near where I'm from used to be lovely, but now it's full of scumbags. The roads are in sh!t and the pubs are full of trouble makers, rapists, drug dealers and other similarly charming characters. Funnily enough though, you'll find that everywhere you go.

It's a bit like people writing off Limerick. Parts of Limerick are dodgy, nobody denies it. Might as well give a dog a bad name and hang him, I guess.

mikemac

Drop the Ball wrote: »

Nenagh is a great town...during day light hours. You could not meet nicer and friendlier people than Nenagh folk. But when the sun goes down the lunatics take over the asylum.

Garrykennedy has to be one of the nicest places in Co.Tipp, a picturesque village on the shores of Lough Derg. A hidden gem.

Hard to argue with that, I'd agree 100%

tommytoofar

tech2 wrote: »

Forgot about Newport, is Silvermines a town?

Went to secondary school in Newport. A nice town and the older people seem ok, but found it very clannish, like Thurles, wouldnt expect to make many friends there, just my experience, would like to think that it has changed a bit and there is less of the shaper element and jersey pullers around

Dubchild

cascade35 wrote: »

Clonmel is a great town, its got great shops, all the supermarkets, diy stores, restaurants, pubs etc.

It does need a real night club,

its got a few arseholes who tend to give it a bad name but if you are in town to do your shopping or having a night out,i doubt you will come across the scum as they tend to hang out in the lane ways of housing estates and sleep under stones.

I agree with Cascade35, i'm from Thurles and it's cool sometimes but i think Clonmel is a great town. I know some will disagree as we had a topic on clonmel but in all the towns i've lived in which isn't too many i suppose I just loved living in Clonmel.

Simon Adebisi

Roscrea is a thoroughbred kip. Feck all to do apart from drink, the place is full of heroin and has way more than its far share of scumbags.

louthandproud

Pretty sad state of affairs in Tipperary by the sounds of it! Most posters seem to hate most of the towns in Tipperary, must be close to 90% negative responses.

How about all that is good about the Tipp towns? I've had good times in quite a few of them, very friendly for the most part and most have great GAA, Rugby, Football Golf clubs et. they are close to great natural amenities, every town has a least a few good pubs, there are Castles, Rocks, Cottages, Towers, Rivers.......

There are scumbags in every town in Ireland, where I live being perhaps having more than most! I'd say Tipperary towns aren't doing too bad at all on that front. And anyway fcuk them, they don't stop me doing what I do and enjoying myself.

JamieK

Quite demoralizing to see pretty much everyone with a terrible opinion of your town!

I can guarentee there is a scumbag element wherever there is civilisation in this country so if ye wouldn't mind shutting up...that'd be great!

Amtmann

The problem in Irish (and British) society seems particularly acute to me. I have lived in three German settlements - two cities and a town - and never once saw the equivalent of the type of hooded, tracksuited yobs you get here.

eileen27

Lots of negativity on here! I live in Tipp and spend a lot of time in towns such as Thurles, Cashel, and Clonmel. These places are great if you take them for what they are. All places have the bad element so just try and avoid but they all have a great community vibe, are on the main friendly. They don't have all the amenities the cities have but we are on the main routes to these cities so not a problem for me. Im a blow in and I wouldn't live anywhere else!

Sigma Force

Have been trying to get out of Tip. county for years..almost there give or take a year or two but I'll get out of here eventually, it's all sh*te.
But saying that Thurles has improved, you'll get scumbags in every town no matter how nice it is and there's trouble esp. on wkend in every town etc. etc. but Thurles has got all the mod cons. good schools, shops and places to eat and more than enough pubs to choose from. The traffic's and lack of car parks is a pain though.
There are some sh*te parts of town though but again you get them everywhere.

Best thing though is the road out of it.

@Tremelo Germany's full of the equivilent of hoodies but they tend to spend more time around railway stations and on the S bahn.
If there's any trouble though the cops have guns so methinks that helps, whereas here it's 'on ye go lads' and off they go to another side of the st. it's the chuggers that are worse than the hoodies though but again that's a problem in every town and city in this country atm.

squeakyduck

Went to school in Carrick on Suir, it is a bit of a hole, lots of scum, but there are alot of nice people, it could do with sprucing up but it would probably be all destroyed after a few yobs coming out of the "Carraig dikko" after a few too many.

Cahir is a gorgeous little town, nice and quite. Love the castle, I used to visit it every year as a child and food in the Galtee inn? I'd love to have a nice dinner in there now....always good food and nice people

JP Liz V1

As an outsider I do agree Tipp town itself isnt great but I spent some time in Clonmel and Thurles and seemed like nice spots I got on well there

charlemont

This picture is going around on Facebook, Its at the Parnell St BOI cash machine, Please do not view if you are eating or have a weak stomach...

Its the worst Iv ever seen....


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DJKendo

charlemont wrote: »

This picture is going around on Facebook, Its at the Parnell St BOI cash machine, Please do not view if you are eating or have a weak stomach...

Its the worst Iv ever seen....


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is it going around on Facebook?

I saw that picture ages ago :S

ReacherCreature

Ah humanity at its finest.

jprboy

charlemont wrote: »

This picture is going around on Facebook, Its at the Parnell St BOI cash machine, Please do not view if you are eating or have a weak stomach...

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ciano1

That picture has been going around for YEARS!

DT100

All in all...Its just another s**t in the wall...................................

Deedsie

Nenagh is a great town. Sure we have scum bags, but we also have far far more decent hard working people. Great characters in the town. I am proud of my roots in Nenagh. I had a great up bringing there.

OwaynOTT

Just been reading through the thread and cannot believe Roscre has only been mentioned three times and only in passing at that.

It's an absolute heckhole. There isn't even a decent pub anymore, only one restaurant if you don't like eating the greasy chinese food that's on offer and let's face the Italian is dyer as well. The food is okay but the service is at a snails pace.

Full of bookies with a load of particular people hanging around outside it and the bleedin' pens in them are devoid of ink.

Not one half decent cafe in it, The Rosewood is depressing.

The Tesco in it is a kip and the big one that they are building is only going to ruin the town. Half the shops are empty or they only open for couple of months. The range of shops is poor as well.

No bookshop and the selection in the library is lacking. It does have two video stores which is weird for its size.

The school, the only secondary school in it, is over crowded and the teachers are either lacking in skills are just don't care.

It looks scruffy all the time and the architecture is depressing.
The post office nearly closed.
The Central House pub on the main street has been closed for years and only recently got a lick of paint.

Anywhere you go in Ireland when you mention your from Roscrea you get a look that or they just ask 'where's that?'

Clareboy

There are some really historic and intersting towns in Co. Tipperary. My favourites are Roscrea, Cashel, Cahir and Clonmel. Holycross is a gem of a village - what an Irish village should look like.

Kaneda_

Clonmel is half-decent.Scum bags are in every city,town and village in ireland!

Every town has 'things to do'.Most towns have a gym,pool, soccer club, GAA clubs, amoung others - people just get caught up in 'going out and getting pissed' which not only gets old and less fun as you get abit older- it also makes you less interested in things that you really enjoy! and to add to that its an expensive past-time.

If you lived in london,like i have or any other major city you also get bored and want a change of scenery,and EVERYWHERE is better when you have money in your pocket!

Lady Chatterton

I think Ballina/Killaloe, Portroe, Garrykennedy, and Dromineer are incrediibly scenic parts of North Tipperary! I'm not very familiar with South Tipp I'm afraid.

Sar_Bear

Worst have to be Roscrea and Tipp Town.. Just awful!
Garrykennedy is beautiful, Templemore isn't bad either!!

bogs

Im a proud kilkenny man and have lived in Carrick on Suir for fourteen years and i have never been harassed threatened or provoked here since i moved in.Im not involved in any social aspects of the town but there seems to be a very vibrant social aspect to the place with regards to sport,drama opera,athletics,festivals,literary clubs,youth organisations,river walks,fishing to name but some and one otherthing to remember that the courthouse in the town takes in Tipp,Kilkenny and waterford areas so when you look at the court cases in Carrick on Suir on your local paper keep this in mind.One other thing i almost forgot to mention is Comeragh College which seems to have gained a superb academical rapour in the last 10 to 15 years.So maybe not all is lost for Carrick on Suir.

tipster

cashel would be one of the good ones cahir not too bad clonmel and carrick not nice and fethard worst of them all

chris2008x

This thread is really stupid. All the towns in Tipperary have positives and negatives but that doesn't mean one town is better than the rest. I don't dislike a single area in Tipperary. I dislike the anti-social behaviours in these towns but its a small majority doing it. Stop bashing these towns as you are painting everybody with the same brush. Sure some of these town have high unemployment, crime, chavs/skangers, drug dealers, unmarried mothers (which isn't a big deal these days for us who stopped been Catholic) Goths, Emos, Murderers, and rapists etc but how can you judge a whole community by just a very small handful of people who lets say certainly won't win person of the year in the towns. Most of these towns have heritage and really interesting history, brilliant locally run businesses and top third level colleges, great music, arts. Can name hundreds more things that great about all Tipperary towns. Bash the terrible people who carry out all the unpleasant things not the whole communities.

What should really be criticized is the poor public transport between all towns in Tipperary. How a number of people in Nenagh were never even down the south of the county. Or people in Cahir/Carrick on Suir/Tipperary town finding it really difficult to go and support their county because there is no public transport to Thurles. (I am aware about the train line. Although the train service exists to Limerick Junction from Waterford, which then brings you to Thurles by changing trains on the mainline the timetable is really crap)